Marcello wrote:
Jon Noring wrote:
LIT is essentially an encapsulated OEBPS 1.0.1 Publication. What ReaderWorks does is take HTML and "conforms" it internally to OEBPS, then converts it to LIT using Microsoft's litgen.dll.
I'll add new formats to the PGTEI converter on the condition that:
1. all components of the converter MUST be open source, 2. all components of the converter MUST run under linux, 3. the new format SHOULD be documented and be an open standard, 4. there SHOULD be at least one free as in beer reader.
Well, that pretty much leaves LIT out of the picture (essentially by 3 and 4). However, OEBPS 1.0.1 would be a viable format to produce (and quite easy if the books documents will validate in XHTML 1.0 Strict.) Then end-users can produce LIT if they so choose. (I'd also produce an OEBPS 1.2 Publication version as well -- there are subtle differences between the two.) As a format, OEBPS fulfills all the openness requirements. There are a couple primitive viewers (still under development) for OEBPS 1.0.1 and 1.2. This includes the "OpenBerg" project. OpenReader (the format) is planning on embracing OEBPS 1.2 and later a selected subset of TEI (PGTEI?). Jon Noring